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Just got back from my annual trip to California, visiting the Samba team get-together. It was very nice to see everybody again , even though it was a bit short this time. :-(

I made a short detour before flying into SFO to attend the first few days of the printing summit in Montreal and do some sightseeing. There wasn't really a lot I could contribute - I've never touched drivers or more than the basic printing API's -, but it was good to meet up with people and see what is going on in printing. Mike Sweet (author of CUPS), who was my mentor in the Google Summer of Code last year, was also there and it was nice to finally meet him in person.

We used to go to the SNIA CIFS event, but this year we (well, Jeremy and Leslie from Google) organized a somewhat more informal event of our own, all hosted at the Google campus in Mountain View. It was a big success, so hopefully we can repeat it next year (-:

A bunch of us that has been involved in the Summer of Code did a podcast, hosted by the famous (at least to fellow SoC students/mentors) Leslie Hawthorn. It was good fun (-:

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Google's Summer of Code was again a pleasure to participate in! I'm quite pleased with the overall results and have enjoyed working on the CUPS tree. Mike, main author of CUPS, has merged my Kerberos branch into trunk a couple of days ago. It should be part of the upcoming 1.3 series. My aim is to stick around and maybe work on SPNEGO/NTLMSSP support.

As of recently I have started working part-time for SerNet. I'll be working on random Samba bits for them, all free software. The first thing I'm working on is backporting the excellent libndr (one of the core parts of DCE/RPC) subsystem from Samba 4 to Samba 3.

The university year has also started, so my activity in free software will probably decrease a bit in a few days.

I've finished the last few bits of my summer of code project. Client and Server side authentication to CUPS using Kerberos both work now, and this works for both the administration tools and IPP. It's been fun working on CUPS and now that I'm a bit more familiar with the code, I'd like to have a try at implementing SPNEGO and NTLMSSP support as well. This should be much easier now, as I already implemented support for WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate for my SoC project.

Rolf Kvinge also seems to've been successful, Mono now has a self-hosting Visual Basic.NET compiler. I'm looking forward to trying it out, once I can get my hands on a binary to compile it with...

After cycling and playing cards in the Vosges (France) I'm back working. After browsing through 10 days of mail, I'm now making significant progress on CUPS-krb5 again.

Currently Playing: Rory Gallagher - Bad Penny

I'll be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year. My project this time is Kerberos integration in CUPS.

My Debian application also finally got moving, after a little less than half a year. Hopefully I can get through this quickly.

Currently Playing: Counting Crows - Goodnight Elizabeth